A Perfect Circle Premiere New Track, “Disillusioned”

A Perfect Circle—the group consisting of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel, Matt McJunkins, Jeff Friedl, and former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha—have premiered a new song, "Disillusioned."

"Disillusioned" is the follow-up to "The Doomed," which—along with the announcement of an as-yet untitled new album (the band's first in 14 years) for release in 2018—came out in October.

You can hear "Disillusioned" above.

For more on A Perfect Circle, stop by aperfectcircle.com.

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.

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